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texture on a null object
Hello,, newb here
so basically I’ve got all these tv screens of different sizes that are flying around and when they come together form a single picture. So each screen has a little piece of the picture on it.
Problem is I can’t find a way to put the movie texture on so that it movies around with the screens and all lines up in the end. Here’s what I’ve tried:
1.Grouping the screens into a null and putting a single texture on it using flat mapping. Problem: Texture doesn’t move with screens.
2.Grouping the screens into a null and putting a single texture on it using UVW mapping. Problem: full texture picture appears on each screen when I only want a segment.
3.Individually putting the texture on each screen using UVW and trying to match them up by eye. Problem:takes forever, no way to ensure proper placement.
Rough draft of what it should look like in the beginning:
https://i.imgur.com/kvC6h.pngand end:
https://i.imgur.com/0w9Xz.pngAny tips much appreciated,, thanks!
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6 Replies
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Put the texture on the cloner, set the mapping to flat, adjust the size to taste, and then (here’s the key), in the Cloner>Object tab, set Fit Texture to Straight.
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O_O I don’t think I ever used a cloner,, I just made a bunch of cubes and put them in a null…
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Oops, bad assumption on my part. Luckily it’s even easier if you’re not using MoGraph. Just group the objects under a null, put the texture on the null with flat mapping, ajust the mapping so it fits, and then right-click on the texture tag and select, “copy tag to children” from the context menu.
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OMG IT WORKS!! BRILLIANT!
Thank you so much! You’ve saved me so much time/frustration.
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What if you wanted to apply an overall texture to a null’s children (which would override the textures already applied to the children)?
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don’t think you can (unless someone knows better). The default is that the texture on an object in a null overrides a texture on the null itself – that’s so you can have one texture on many things but a texture placed on a single object under the null will show.
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